SCRANTON - The state Department of Transportation will pump an additional $3 million into a road project on Keyser Avenue to immediately repave a 2.5-mile stretch.

Starting at 7 a.m. Monday, Kriger Construction will mill and then repave the stretch from McDade Park in Scranton to Oak Street in Taylor, where utility companies have been upgrading their network. Work will continue for the next few months, requiring single-lane closures that will cause extensive backups, PennDOT said.

Utility companies' additional upgrade requests have made Keyser a "much rougher ride than originally planned," the release said.

The upgrades are part of a $10.4 million improvement project expected to be complete in October 2015.

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